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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I would like to allow the deputation to finish replying to the questions. If any issue remains outstanding, I will allow members to contribute in the order they have indicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Senator Harte asked about using people from local VECs and local authorities to man advice centres in colleges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Quickly, please. We have been here for two hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We conclude as we have been here for some time. Are other issues outstanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I am sorry, Deputy, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: It is unfair of the Deputy to try to put his own words into other people's mouths. Ms Stewart has answered the question a number of times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I call Deputy Keating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: If anyone knows of individual cases, Ms Stewart and the other members of the deputation have agreed to examine them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I thank Ms Stewart, Mr. Prizeman and Ms Cullinane for attending today's meeting. While this has been a helpful meeting, there are many matters outstanding. This meeting was convened following representations to members by constituents around their concerns about the system. I will emphasise again that we may be in contact about individual cases and would be anxious to obtain as much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We are having this discussion in advance of the next meeting of the EU Council of Ministers on Education, Youth and Culture which will take place on 26 November. I welcome the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, and his officials. The Minister will stay with us until 2.30 p.m. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: It is from the Minister's presentation. The Senator should have received a copy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: A person making a presentation does not have to stick to a script. The Minister should proceed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I will start with the spokespersons. I call Deputy McConalogue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We have received a message from RTE's Oireachtas unit stating it is receiving considerable interference from mobile telephones. It wants me, as Chairman, to remind members to switch them off. I have mine off. The Minister mentioned the European Social Fund, ESF, and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, EGF. Former workers with Team Aer Lingus might have received some of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Sorry Senator, I was going to say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: No, I understand. I had intended to allow the Minister to conclude and then to ask whether anyone had further questions, because I also have questions arising from it. I invite the Minister to conclude, after which we will revert to whomsoever wishes to ask further questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I am sorry, Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: On that point, one of the meetings listed for the new year - basically because of Senator Moloney - is multi-lingualism in an EU context. That is scheduled for 10 April 2013. I wanted to raise one matter with the Minister, which is more of a point than a question. There is an issue about the university ranking system which some say is elitist and ad hoc. If we are to influence an EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social, Personal and Health Education Curriculum: Discussion with Comhairle na nÓg (14 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome from Comhairle na nÓg, Mr. Orin Tulié Daly, Offaly, Mr. Stephen Keegan, Roscommon, Ms Davina Clancy, Galway, Mr. Conn McCarrick, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, and Ms Niamh Donnelly, Mayo, to discuss the social, personal and health education curriculum and the relationships and sexuality education within that. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary...